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posted December 15, 2010 06:24 PM            

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I read love in a time of cholera. For some reason, the ending wasn't that good to me.

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posted December 15, 2010 06:24 PM            

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"Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell about an oligarchical, collectivist society. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue, in Newspeak), protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meagre existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and reconversion."

It's extremely well written and got under my skin in a serious way for weeks after I read it, it's just so good.

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posted December 15, 2010 06:27 PM            

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Take up kundalini reiki and give him kundalini for creativity. Hopefully it will reach the second chakra and give him a sex addiction too.

(totally not serious)

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posted December 15, 2010 06:28 PM            

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Great thanks! 1984 looks awesome.

LOL, I think he already does!

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posted December 15, 2010 06:30 PM            

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JFK, wow, that is extremely futuristic for something written in the 40s

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posted December 15, 2010 06:31 PM            

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posted December 15, 2010 06:33 PM            

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George Orwell was quite the visionary. In the book he's pretty much describing tube trains that travel at incredible speed to get to places that would be essentially high speed rails in todays jargon, flat screen interactive TVs, computers, he talks about how the 1950's were a period of general peace and the 1960's was a time filled with great revolutions.. God, I'd love for someone here to analyze his chart, or something! He also wrote the famous Animal Farm.

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posted December 15, 2010 06:38 PM            

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What else guy's?
I want something heartbreaking, inspiring.

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posted December 15, 2010 07:30 PM            

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Dostoevsky
"Crime and Punishment"
deep,somewhat depressing, death, torture, rebirth.
In my opinion, this book should be read after age 30

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posted December 15, 2010 07:32 PM            

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

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posted December 15, 2010 08:15 PM            

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Russian authors are something that should be experienced by cancer-loaded people but it works for any water sign. dostoievsky,btw,was scorpio,and crime&punishment is definitely sth that a scorpio should read. But,u r no scorpio if u havent read master and margarita by bulgakov. A must!!!
NickiG,i am intrigued,what kind of literature do u read?

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posted December 15, 2010 08:22 PM            

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i like fantasy, science fiction, it has to have a lot of action...if it has witches, werewolves, vampires and other sorts of creatures or incredible humans with lots of blood, fighting and very interesting characters then i'll definitely read...one of my favorite series growing up was the Alex Rider Adventures by Anthony Horowitz about a 14 year old MI6 agent..not to mention Encyclopedia Jones...on my book shelf at home is one of the Eragon books and plenty of Vampire books

if the story is too realistic, too romantic and too dramatic then no thanks, lol, i'll get bored with it quickly....it took me over a year to read this one book called Chikara which is a 3 part book following a japanese family over 4 generations...while Twilight on the other hand i can read in less than 24 hours, no joke...oh and as a kid i used to read Aquamarine about 5 times ever night before bed

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posted December 15, 2010 08:40 PM            

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Tangible fantasy,i see.. Cool i liked his dark materials trilogy,philip pulman,i think... Northen lights is the first.

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posted December 15, 2010 08:42 PM            

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posted December 15, 2010 09:42 PM            

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1984 is very Saturn/Uranus.

The City and The City by China Mielville might be intriguing. It's kind of like 1984 but more of a noir mystery thing.

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posted December 15, 2010 09:52 PM            

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Wuthering Heights for sure

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posted December 18, 2010 12:47 PM            

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Agreed, "Master and Margarita" is a great Novel. Actually one of my favorite
and it is very scorpionic as well.
VenusDiSirius what is ur favorite character?
Mine is Begemot.... so canning/cruel and so charming.

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posted December 18, 2010 01:22 PM            

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1984 is Saturn/Uranus to me too, also Brave New World by Huxley (great book!), and Kurt Vonnegut would be great reads for uranian people.

On topic, not about unrequited love, but a tortured soul who tries to find his way out by, um, having random sex with people? Sexus, by Henry Miller.

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posted December 18, 2010 02:53 PM            

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I have read master&margarita 3 times,and each time i struggled to say which character is my favourite i have cat called behemot so,i think it speaks for itself russian and my mother tongue are from same language family,slavic,so translation is pretty much as original,which is soo important,because u can lose all the beauty of fabula,and it can be harder to see is author indeed bard First impression: damn,devil can be coool (was 16)

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posted December 18, 2010 03:10 PM            

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Great,
I am ogirinally from Moscow so russian is my mother tongue. it is great to talk to fellow Burgakov/ Begemot lover, lol

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